#simpeds

Innovation in Healthcare Comes From Hollywood

This is a very cool story that I stumbled upon on Boston.com. Special effects company Fractured FX is now working with Boston Children’s simulator program, SIMPeds, to create a new generation of lifelike mannequins/simulators. (Fractured FX won an Emmy this fall for American Horror Story: Freak Show.) These mannequins, used in training, are not the hard-plastic dolls of old. Physicians using this…

Hollywood FX artists help doctors practice child surgery

Boston Children's Hospital has formed an odd partnership with a practical special effects company to create more realistic surgery simulator models. Santa Monica-based Fractured FX is well acquainted with human anatomy (and gore), having worked on…

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